Monthly work summary for 2026-04 focused on Slurm CPU-only workload support in SkyPilot for alex000kim/skypilot. Implemented a CPU-only task partition feature to improve provisioning accuracy and resource utilization when GPUs are not requested. Highlights include end-to-end changes to enable a dedicated cpu_partition, global and per-cluster schema updates, a new lookup_cpu_partition() helper, partitions filtering in regions_with_offering for CPU-only tasks, and task-level config overrides to propagate per-task requirements. Also enabled per-launchable partition assignment by turning on optimize_by_zone for Slurm, improving scheduling correctness across zones. A code quality improvement fixed Yapf formatting in lookup_cpu_partition to maintain style consistency. Business impact: more predictable CPU/GPU resource allocation, reduced waste, and faster provisioning for CPU-bound workloads with Slurm. Tech stack: Python, Slurm integration, SkyPilot provisioning logic, region/launchable filtering, and config schema design.

February 2026 (2026-02): Delivered a platform-wide S3 addressing style configuration feature in FlyteKit, enabling users to specify the addressing style for S3 connections via S3Config. This enhances compatibility with diverse S3-compatible storage solutions and reduces configuration friction for deployments across cloud providers. The change was implemented in the FlyteKit repo (commit c0921e936a2d29069c9266ab4a6890d2d6a3fdf9, co-authored by Kevin Su). No major bugs fixed this month; focus remained on delivering storage interoperability and reliability improvements.